The Presentation of a Double Aortic Arch in Adulthood in Association with Congestive Heart Failure Attributed to a Previously Silent Aortic Regurgitation

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Abstract

This paper describes an adult case of a double aortic arch (DAA; Edwards type IA). The patient had been asymptomatic for DAA but presented difficulty in swallowing in association with congestive heart failure, which she experienced as the result of attending to her sick husband while she apparently suffered from a silent aortic regurgitation. The symptoms disappeared and the patient recovered from heart failure following medical treatment. The patient soon discontinued the outpatient treatment and, after 2 years, the identical symptoms recurred under similar circumstances. In this paper we demonstrate that an asymptomatic case of DAA has the potential to clinically manifest itself.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): CRD

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Cardiology

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.0008-6312

Title: Cardiology

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 0008-6312

ISSN (Electronic): 1421-9751

Publication date Subscription-year: 1995

Publication date (Print): 1995

Publication date (Electronic): 19 November 2008

Volume: 86

Issue: 6

Pages: 521-523

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^aDepartment of Surgery, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama, and ^bJunkankika-Hayashi Hospital, Niihama, Japan

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Publisher ID: 176933 Other ID: Cardiology 1995;86:521–523

DOI: 10.1159/000176933

PubMed ID: 7585765

SO-VID: 22537b1a-63ce-42aa-8530-85e32c77a3ef

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Date received : 07 December 1994

Date accepted : 14 February 1995

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Pages: 3

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